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Auction workers scanned the several hundred would-be buyers packed into the conference room at the Hilton Garden Inn -- and spilling out by the swimming pool -- looking for a nod or raised hand. Even more bidders were registered online.

“I got 13 on the Internet,” Dixon told the crowd, fishing for more. “That’s 11 lots ... for one money.”

Finally, the bidding ended at $14,000, sold online to bidder No. 5173.

The lots in Heritage Hills were one of 56 offerings put on the block Wednesday by auctioneer John Dixon & Associates. The proper-

ties were inherited by State Bank when it took over the assets of Security Bank of Macon after it failed last summer.

The properties ranged from subdivision lots and commercial buildings to houses and mobile homes in Bibb, Houston, Peach, Jones, Monroe, Crawford, Butts, Hancock and Wilkinson counties. Most of the properties were in Middle Georgia but three were in McIntosh County, near the coast.

Another 62 offerings of former Security Bank properties in the Atlanta area were sold Tuesday, bringing in more than $1 million, said Bob Green, an employee of the auction company.